Oh geez!! Options for replacing speakers in my Eden 210xlt???

Have you contacted Eden directly about replacemnet speakers? $115 sounds mighty high!

 

I had mine reconed by Eden for ~$70 each if I recall.

 

same here! My XLTs are getting old and chuffing too. Anybody know of a good 10" replacement speaker at a decent price $$$$???? I haven't been able to contact Eden. Says their parts dept. isn't up and running yet on the site.
<s> dD

 

If you want it to still sound like an Eden, you probably ought to stick with the same speakers, i.e. have them reconed.

Although it might sound like a lot (and it is), you'll have an essentially brand new cabinet when it's done.

 

Don't put anything in there that's not designed for that box! You could get lucky and it sounds fine, but boxes are designed specifically for the driver being used.

- Andrew

 

Pick up the phone and call. Works every time

 

Ditto on getting the same speakers for replacement, or reconing. Other speakers will likely sound way different, maybe good, but with the cab optimized for those particular speakers, most likely you will not like the results of a swap.

Try the forum at http://www.eden-electronics.com they can give you the inside scoop.

Randy

 

Reverse engineering the cabinet is a long way from brain surgery. Knowing the exact interior dimensions and size of the ports there are at least fifty guys on this forum alone who can tell you what will work in the box, and probably better than the original drivers.

 

another eden recone thread ..

hmmm.. make you think why I sold mine

 

Aftermarket recone parts are available for eden speakers from Waldom and others and they are DIRT cheap wholesale.

The makup at the retail end can't be THAT bad.

Last time I checked a 15" kit was $18

and a 10" kit was under $10.

 

Actually, the truth is...

Bill's right, we made the mistake of thinking you didn't know how to do it, generally people wouldn't know how to do it, and forgetting to tap the wealth of knowlege available on the board where plenty of people would know how to do it.

Kudo's to Bill for thinking outside the box. He is absolutley correct.

Actually the other option is if you can find the appropriate specs for the original driver params, and a web site or list of aftermarket drivers' params, you can just look for similar parameters, get the closest match. Don't even need to do any computations.

Randy

 

Good luck. Eden has always claimed to make their own drivers and I've never found a spec listed for them anywhere. A cynic might say that they won't reveal their driver specs as having done so anyone with a box program could prove within 30 seconds or less than their claimed frequency responses are bogus. Or perhaps they prefer that you buy your (Eminence?) replacements from them rather than another (less expensive!) source. Whatever. Even if they do make their own drivers there isn't anything about them that couldn't be found elsewhere. I've requested before that someone post a picture of one, rear and side view, if it is a sourced OEM figuring out what it is wouldn't be all that difficult. I haven't seen one yet. The mystery continues.

 

You're implying there's some kind of conspiracy going on here. Eden isn't an aftermarket speaker company. They make speakers for their boxes and that's it. It makes sense that they wouldn't publish complete thiele-small specs because it's not necessary since their drivers were never intended to end up in somebody else's cabs anyway. I don't think it's anything more sinister than simply that.